Line breaks not displaying in view

Question

I have Person.description with the following stored in the database:

jnkl

fdsfdsf

fdsf

fsdfdsfs fds fd sf sdf ds

How do I display this with the line-breaks in the view? It is currently displaying all on one line and I don't understand why.

Answer 1

you should use the simple_format helper:

<%= simple_format @person.description %>

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-simple_format

Source

# File actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line 301
def simple_format(text, html_options = {}, options = {})
  wrapper_tag = options.fetch(:wrapper_tag, :p)

  text = sanitize(text) if options.fetch(:sanitize, true)
  paragraphs = split_paragraphs(text)

  if paragraphs.empty?
    content_tag(wrapper_tag, nil, html_options)
  else
    paragraphs.map! { |paragraph|
      content_tag(wrapper_tag, raw(paragraph), html_options)
    }.join("\n\n").html_safe
  end
end